Your Energy Bills at Risk! The Truth About US-Canada Relations

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:00]Toronto weekend had consequences. In the weeks following the summit, Washington signaled that it was prepared to revisit arrangements that had been treated as untouchable for decades. Crossber energy corridors, the pipelines, transmission lines, and interconnected grid infrastructure that both countries had long managed as shared continental infrastructure. Well, they were put on the table. Great Lakes water sharing agreements governed by the 2012 Great Lakes Compact and decades of bilateral cooperation were raised as potential leverage points. Joint technology partnerships, including defense adjacent research collaborations under the defense production sharing agreement, were all flagged as areas where Washington could apply friction without formal escalation. Now, none of this was announced in a press release. It was delivered the way Washington delivers its most serious messages through back channels, briefings, and deliberate leaks of options being studied. So, the translation isn't subtle, right? Trump's letting him know, hey, the Global Progress Action Summit noted. Two probable 2028 presidential candidates photographed beside a sitting prime minister. Check. An event explicitly organized around defeating the American political right. Not good. And the cost is going to be paid at the negotiating table. July 1st is only seven weeks away. And what the Toronto summit highlighted was the most visible public declaration of war between two competing visions for how the world should be organized that we haven't seen since Trump returned to power. On one side, the globalist institutional network, not a conspiracy, something more durable than a conspiracy. It's an ecosystem.

[00:01:38]CAP, Canada 2020, the Open Society funding architecture, the WE alumni network, the Clinton Obama institutional machine. All of this is a network that never accepted it lost. It reconstituted after 2016 and it went quiet after 2014 and it found friendlier soil in Ottawa and Brussels and Stockholm. And then in May 2026, with Barack Obama at the microphone and half of the Canadian cabinet in the room, it made its most deliberate and public move yet, intimating that the democratic process is not reliably delivering its preferred outcomes and has therefore moved to a transnational playing field where democratic accountability is harder to apply. That's the stated mission.

[00:02:20]coordinate across borders, study what works, implement globally. And when voters in America, Britain, Canada, and across Europe keep returning to nationalist governments, the globalist network, they don't ask why, they don't reform it. They regroup and they prepare for the next attack. And it certainly seems the America First project is ready for it. Now holding a July 1 deadline like a loaded weapon. And let's be honest, Trump doesn't actually want the CSMA to collapse. The math is pretty ugly if it does. The average American household is already paying 1,500 more annually. And a full CUSMA implosion removes tariff exemptions from over 90% of Canadian exports, which would trigger an economic shock that both countries would feel before the 26 midterms. The outcome serves no one in Washington with a political future. But Trump also can't let Toronto go unanswered. You can't let them pay no visible price because it would send a message to every allied government that's watching that the globalist network is a safe harbor. That cannot happen. So, the most likely outcome is limbo, deliberate, weaponized, permanent. Trump lets CUSMA enter annual review rather than confirming the 16-year extension. No dramatic breakdown, no press conference declaring the agreement dead. Just the quiet, devastating removal of certainty.

[00:03:41]Canada wakes up on July 2nd not knowing if its economy is protected for 16 years or 12 months. That uncertainty is the punishment. It reprices every Canadian business investment, every crossber supply chain decision, every conversation a Canadian CEO has with an American partner. And it hands Washington a lever it can pull every single year. Permanent leverage, no resolution. a Canadian prime minister who ran on standing up to Trump, spending the next decade asking Washington's permission to keep his economy intact one year at a time.

[00:04:17]It seems that that's what Toronto bought Carney, a target on his back. Now, what could success possibly look like for him under these circumstances and for the network behind him if Trump holds the keys to July 1st? What could they have possibly been thinking? First, outlast him. So, their bet is simple. hold long enough for the domestic pain to become politically unbearable. And if Carney doesn't blink, if he frames annual review as a managed standoff rather than a defeat, then every month that passes a month that Trump's base absorbs the cost of a trade war that hasn't delivered the promised win. The network doesn't really need a treaty, they need a ticking clock. Second is replication. The summit's documented agenda wasn't really about Canada at all. It was about the formula. how a center-left leader who trailed by double digits ran on resistance and won. And if that formula holds in Ottawa gets exported to Berlin, to CRA, and to the 2028 Democratic primary. So every allied government that survives, nationalist economic pressure becomes a proof of concept. The network isn't trying to win one election. It's trying to establish that its model works, that transnational coordination, which messages discipline and institutional infrastructure can substitute for a domestic mandate.

[00:05:31]Toronto was just the case study. The roll out across the world is what comes next. And third, you've got subversion through dependence. So this is the quietest track and the most durable.

[00:05:42]It's the same economic integration that gives Trump his leverage. Well, it also constrains him because he can't actually destroy USMA without wrecking American supply chains, triggering automotive sector collapse, and handing Democrats a recession before midterms. The network knows this. Carney knows this. The globalists built an interdependence so deep that any serious attempt to dismantle it punishes the dismantler as much as the target. So Trump can threaten the cage, but he can't easily exit it. The longer the standoff runs, the more that asymmetry becomes visible.

[00:06:18]And the more the network can frame American economic nationalism not as strength but as selfdestruction dressed up as leverage. So taken together, their strategy is exhaustion, replication, and enttrapment. Run out the clock on Trump's second term. Prove the formula works internationally before 28 and ensure that the architecture of interdependence makes any lasting nationalist economic project just too costly to complete. If the America First Project wins, if COMMA enters limbo, if Carney is forced into visible concessions before July 1, then something equally clarifying will have been demonstrated. That the globalists built their own cage. That economic interdependence they constructed over 30 years, the integration they sold as mutually beneficial turns out to be the most effective coercion instrument that Washington has ever held. They wo Canada so tightly into the American economy that any government attempting resistance faces existential consequences before the first negotiating session ends. They built the architecture. Trump just found the key.

[00:07:25]Either outcome is a verdict, not on trade policy, but on power, where it actually lives, how it actually moves, and whether democratic elections remain the mechanism that controls it. The Toronto handshake wasn't a coup. It wasn't treason. Wasn't a Logan Act violation. It was something so much more consequential than any of those things.

[00:07:45]It was the moment that the globalist network stopped pretending that they stopped using think tank language as a cover. That they stopped operating through donor networks and white papers and carefully worded press releases about a better and more just future.

[00:08:00]It's the moment they came together in plain sight in a hotel ballroom in Toronto with Obama at the podium and half the Canadian cabinet in the front row and the world's leftist global elite all in one room to let us know that the fight for the post-war world order is just beginning. All right, guys. If you like this clip and you want to watch the full episode, click here. And if you want more content like this, you can subscribe to the show by clicking